R.I.P. Satoru Iwata
Nintendo Co., Ltd. deeply regrets to announce that President Satoru Iwata passed away on July 11, 2015
James Horner – Obituary
Film composer James Horner has died in a plane crash.
RIP Sir Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Lee 1922-2015
Glen Orbik – 1963-2015
The world of illustration lost a real treasure this past week when artist Glen Orbik lost his long battle with cancer on May 11th.
Top Post de Febrero
What we wrote about in Febrero
Suzette Haden Elgin – RIP
Suzette Haden Elgin, founder of the SFPA, author and linguist, dead at 78.
Obituario: Fracisco Porrúa (Corcubión, La Coruña, 1922 – Barcelona, 18 de diciembre de 2014)
Fracisco Porrúa, editor and translator of Bradbury, Borges, Simak & Sturgeon, passed away on December 18, 2014
Décés de Michel Jeury
An obituary for French author Michel Jeury
Novedades de Diciembre en Hispanoamérica
A round up of new things from our spanish speaking friends
Noticias literatura 24-12
Francisco Porrúa, founder of “Minotauro”, is dead at 92
Novedades de Septiembre en Hispanoamérica
a roundup of new Spanish language releases
Remembering Joe Bethancourt
Joe Bethancourt 1946 – 2014
Acting scary: The performers who made horror convincing again
Good horror needs convincing actors. Hammer Films delivered.
Noticias literatura 26-2
Fallece el escritor Juan José Plans; Convocatoria para el “Visiones 2014”; Ediciones Irreverentes presenta la colección 2099.
Sid Caeser, 1922 – 2014
The first king of comedy was no stranger to genre roles.
Obituary – Doris Lessing
Dorris Lessing
Octavia Butler, o el peso de la diferencia
Octavia Butler era una chica negra, pobre, inusualmente alta, tímida, tartamuda, disléxica y lesbiana. Desde muy joven tuvo una idea bastante clara de lo que era la discriminación en sus muchas formas y utilizó la ciencia ficción para explorar temas sociales antiguos y modernos.
Review – Searching for Ray Bradbury by Steven Paul Leiva
A loving tribute to the memory of one of the most important figures both in the history of our genres and in American popular culture and the literature of the 20th century.
Fred and Me
“It is rare that someone who you first come to know as an icon becomes a human and a friend, and that is what happened with Fred in the years that I’ve known him
Frederik Pohl
Frederik Pohl has always been a part of my life. Always
A Fan’s History — Fanzines, Continued….
Fanzines, continued: Okay, Mr. Smartypants, what’s a “sercon” zine? Actually, I’m glad you asked that question. It’s another of those annoying (well, to an outsider) fannish neologisms and acronyms. In this case, we have “serious” and “constructive” all smashed together to form “sercon.” (If they were complete words, we’d have what Humpty Dumpty called “portmanteau” […]
Richard Matheson, 1926-2013
There are some writers whose work is known and enjoyed by millions of people who have never heard their name. Or even if they have heard their name, haven’t read their work, or associate their name with the work they’ve done. Richard Matheson (b.1926), who died on June 23, is one of those authors, who also received […]
Oh my God! I Miss You, Iain Banks.
Oh my God! I miss you.
Iain M. Banks – In Memorium
Science fiction lost Scottish author Iain M. Banks to gall bladder cancer on June 9, just over two months after he announced that he had been diagnosed with the disease. Banks began publishing fiction in 1984 with his non-genre novel The Wasp Factory. His first science fiction novel, Consider Phlebas, was published three years later. To help […]